Phishing, fake news & online safety — learn to spot what's real!
Complete the red island activity, demonstrate your understanding of the concepts covered, and showcase your skills using Microsoft PowerPoint.
🎣 Just like a fish taking the bait — phishing tricks you into clicking something dodgy!
Read each email address or email carefully, then choose your answer. You'll find out straight away if you're right, and what clues to look for.
A homoglyph is a letter or number that looks almost identical to a different one. Scammers swap these lookalike characters into web addresses and email addresses so a fake site looks like the real thing at a glance. Some swaps are simple (a capital I instead of a lowercase l), while others use letters from a completely different alphabet, like Cyrillic (used for Russian), that look exactly like English letters but are treated by computers as totally different characters.
Each pair below looks the same. Can you spot what's different before you reveal it?
How to protect yourself:
Want to reach Extending in the PowerPoint part of the rubric? Add an index slide that lists every question. Clicking a question jumps straight to its slide, and clicking a home icon on any slide jumps back to the index — just like a website menu.
Click on your title slide, then choose . Give it the heading Index, then type a short name for each question on its own line (for example, "Q3: Phishing clues"). Make sure you've already made a slide for every question.
Highlight the text for one question. Choose (or press Ctrl + K). On the left, click , pick the matching slide from the list, then click OK. The text turns blue and underlined. Repeat for every question.
Go to one of your question slides and choose . Search for home, pick a house icon and click Insert. Shrink it and drag it into a corner where it won't cover your writing.
Click once on the icon to select it. Choose (Ctrl + K), click , select your Index slide, then click OK.
Select the linked icon and copy it (Ctrl + C). Go to each of the other question slides and paste (Ctrl + V). The pasted icon keeps its link and lands in the same spot, so it sits neatly in the same corner on every slide.
Links only work when you are presenting, so press F5 to start the slideshow from the beginning. Click each question on the index, then click the home icon to come back. If one goes to the wrong place, right-click it in normal view, choose , and pick the correct slide.
| 🌱 Developing | ✅ Consolidating | 🌟 Extending | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Response Knowledge & Understanding |
Very basic responses that demonstrate a small understanding. Some confusion in the overall explanation. No context or elaboration to truly demonstrate understanding. | A decent understanding of the knowledge provided in the game, video and class discussion. Factually accurate, with multiple sentences. Examples used. | A deep understanding of the impacts of technology on society. Paragraph responses. Evidence of additional information from your previous knowledge or research. |
| PowerPoint Processes & Production |
A basic presentation with black writing on a white background. | Templates/colours used to improve the aesthetic appeal. A minimum of 3 additional relevant images included. | An index page included with each question shown, individually hyperlinked to their respective slides, and a "home" icon that returns to the index page. |